MONTEGO BAY, August 23, 2022 - The historical value of Jamaica’s primary cricket grounds, the world-famous Sabina Park in Kingston, lies not necessarily in that fact that many of the world’s cricket greats have played on that field, but that a little-known slave woman, for whom the grounds are named, was buried there, having paid the ultimate price as part of her battle for freedom from slavery.
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